Stroudsburg's Carlton House demolition on HARB agenda tonight

The Stroudsburg Borough Historical Architectural Review Board will hear an application tonight to demolish the former Carlton House on Main Street.

The Stroudsburg Borough Historical Architectural Review Board will hear an application tonight to demolish the former Carlton House on Main Street.

The group was originally scheduled to hear the application on Dec. 17, but that meeting was canceled.

The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers on the second floor of the municipal building at 700 Sarah St.

Because the Carlton House is in the borough's historic district, HARB must review the application and give its recommendation to the borough council, which will vote on whether to allow the demolition.

The building, on the corner of Eighth and Main streets, has been vacant since a December 2009 fire. It was purchased last year by local developer Dein Properties.

The company plans to demolish the existing building and install an upscale, mixed-use building that will likely feature retail on the first floor and "a floor or two of professional office space and high-end residential apartments" above, George Strunk, general manager of Dein Properties, said in a recent interview.